I must be a glutton for punishment b/c I gave it another chance. Fell asleep in the middle of ep3. Finished it the next day. But it got worse with ep4. I turned it off before it was over. The script is just not good. I lost count how many times I found myself frowning watching. Some things are okay, like the scenery. A couple of actors are okay, but overall I don't feel any connection. They seem hollow or forced, something, I can't really describe it. They added frivolous things, like Perrin having a wife, but it seems forced and just a lame to invent a different motivation for leaving, or something. And thats a continuing trend, the additions of things that didn't happen in the book don't add anything or make it better than what they subtracted from the book.
I guess they erased Min, which from recollection they should have met while fleeing the two rivers. Instead that interaction seems to have been replaced with whitecloaks in questionable wardrobe choices and their modern, perfectly styled hair.
that old ferryman jumping back into the water, swimming towards a throng of monsters was dumb. Theres no way a person would look at that on the other side and go "yep. I have a chance to make it past them"
Chatty Lan sitting around a campfire and chumming it up with pals is so cringe. That was not the Lan from the books.
Overly dramatic/melodramatic moments that just make me roll my eyes. That fight scene at the end of ep4 was something that looked low budged.
Meanwhile on reddit people are going crazy over it like it is the best thing ever. Some even apparently moved to tears. I just don't see what they see.